Feelings About Balance

Feelings about balance (parents)

Summary

Physical
activity improves social life, quality of life, and health. There is evidence
that youth with physical disabilities do not try as many different activities
as youth who do not have disabilities. One reason might be that they may have
lower confidence in their ability to keep their balance during certain
activities or settings as a result of their disability. Right now, we
have no way to measure balance confidence in youth. We think that
therapists need to be able to measure balance confidence to know what to work
on in their treatment to help youth become more active in physical activities.

As a
result, we are making a questionnaire for youth ages 9 to 18 years to be able
to tell us how confident they are about their balance. Later on, we will test
our new questionnaire to make sure it measures balance confidence accurately,
and look at how balance confidence is related to actual balance and
participation in physical activities